- Submitted by
- packhamavalancheconsulting
- Observations date
- Sunday, December 22, 2019 at 21:00
- Location
- 49.065050° N 117.050870° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Foggy
- Stormy
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
Comments
Storm snow seemed surprisingly well bonded today. Had one Extended Column test that propagated down 100 on a hard tap but this result was not replicated. A compression test had a sudden planar result on the same layer on the 27th tap. No signs of new slab avalanches.